Content Duplications issues becoming very serious now a days

SixChannles voice on Duplicate Content Issues:

The usage of website is growing very much to sell each and every products, this has been resulted in a large number of websites to be live. Due to the billions of websites many people easily stealing content to their websites to fill with more details, this is now has became very serious issue and Google is penalizing such websites in large numbers which is very sensible thing.

SixChannels feels the reasons are hundred why search engines hate duplicate content. One is that they don’t want to show the same pages in their search results. Another is that they don’t want to spend the resources in indexing pages that are same carbon copies.

GoogBlog domain from Indian teen regained by Google

A post by SixChannels:SixChannels got stunned that GOOGLE The best search engine in the the world of internet has managed to get back the domain name, Googblog.com from Gujarat school boy who owned this domain. Google had to move the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) to get the domain name from Surendranagar based 17-year-old Herit Shah, who owned the domain.

The internet search champion claimed that the word 'Goog' in the domain was it's stock sticker at the NASDAQ. After
studying on this issue by WIPO this week found merit in the claims of Google and asked Shah to transfer the domain name to the US company.

This teenager had received a letter from a Google's legal representatives based in Gurgaon asking him to return back the domain to the US search company under IPL norms.

But Shah defended his position, therefore Google filed a case at the WIPO in March, which finally took decision that he had to handover the domain name to Google.

Herit, who is writing XII exams this year has initiated the process of reverting the Googblog domain name to the internet giant. He expressed no declination and said that this incidence with Google had made him realise his worth.

SixChannels appreciate this young boys brave heart to face this type of incidence in his teen age....

SixChannels found New SEO Tool: Website Health Check Tool

SixChannels while reading some SEO related blogs had found The Website Health Check tool aims to provide a simple and intuitive interface to seeing if your site has any major SEO issues. The site queries Google to grab pages you have indexed in Google, and looks for issues amongst the first 1,000 results.

If your site is exceptionally large, you can use the date based filters to view a sample of recently indexed pages in Google to see if there are any duplication issues amongst those pages.

For More Info visit: http://www.seobook.com/new-seo-tool-website-health-check-tool

Some Important On page factors that helps website visibility on seacrh engines

Search Engine Optimisation is to make that your website maximum search engine friendly. If your website is not exactly optimised then you have less chance of getting good results in the search engines, here is a quick guide towards good on page SEO:

* It is very important that All of your web pages can be indexed by search engines - make sure that they all have at least one link from somewhere on your site.


* Unique & fresh content on every single page plays an important role in crawling and getting indexed by search engines.


* The meta-tags are arrangement plays one of the important role - your page title tags and description tags should describe the content of your different web pages. The page title tags should be less then 68 characters and the description tags more detailed but less then 148 characters.


* Make sure you label the different headers on your web pages using H tags.


* Make sure that your web page URLs are SEO friendly, use mod re-write for Linux and Apahche hosting or use IIS redirect for Windows. Ideally make it so that the URLs describe your content i.e. use domain.com/blue-widgets.php as apposed to having something like domain.com/product.php?cat=146. Use hyphens or underscores to separate words in the URLs.


* Use descriptive URLs as much as possible for your images i.e. use blue-widget.jpg as apposed a bunch of numbers and or letters .jpg.


* Make sure that you label all of your images with descriptive alt attributes.


* Make good use of anchor text links within your content - if you have a page about blue widgets, use the phrase blue widgets in the text that links to it.


* Make sure that there is only one version of your site - 301 redirect all non www. URLs to the www. ones or vice versa.


* Make sure that there is only one version of your homepage - 301 redirect the index or default page back to domain.com.


* Don't waste PageRank on pages that you don't need to be in the search engines or that you don't think will bring you traffic, possibly your terms and conditions page or even your about and contact page. Use the rel="nofollow" tag in the links to these pages.


* Use the rel="nofollow" tag in the links to websites that you do not trust, you think maybe using spamming techniques or you do not want to help in the search engines.


* Make sure that your code is valid, in some instances bad code can lead to search engines not being able to properly read a page. Use the W3C validator to check your markup.

A post on Hub Finder is web based software which looks for hub pages fom SixChannels

About Hub Finder

SixChannels : Hub Finder is web based software which looks for hub pages using the Yahoo! API. It allows you to find sites which link to common resources that you manually enter, or resources that rank well in Yahoo! for a specific term.

* You can manually enter sites you want to cross check, or grab the top ranked results from Yahoo! Search.
* The depth limit acts as a noise filter since Yahoo! places some of the better backlinks near the top of their results.
* Hub pages which link to related resources may provide powerful links which are given a relevancy boost in community, topic, or authority based search algorithms such as TrustRank, Teoma's Topic Distillation [PDF] (Topic Distillation available less academically in this Mike Grehan PDF), Hilltop, and Topic Sensitive PageRank [PDF].
* 403 errors means the API queries are used up for the day. Please contact us if this becomes an issue.
* Questions or feedback? Please ask in the forums.

Why is Hub Finder Powerful

Many links are simply nepotistic or spammy or hard to replicate. But a site that links to many competing sites in the same field stands a good chance of having editorial integrity and being willing to add new links to other related sites. As this TouchGraph image shows, search engines see the relationships between topics and ideas.

Some algorithms (like LocalRank) may give a boost to links from websites which are well linked to amongst their community.

There are a lot of ways to use a tool like Hub Finder. For example, if a website related to yours moves, you can contact anyone linking to them and competing sites and let them know to update that link. While you are sending them that email you can pitch your site (and other related sites, to look less self-promotional).

For more info : http://training.seobook.com/hubfinder

An interesting post from Ann Smarty on Captch and difficulties in filling it many times

sixchannels agrees with Ann Smarty's new post CAPTCHAs present a very controversial topic: you can’t do without them as a webmaster and you can’t stand them as a user.

Some CAPTCHAs are just impossible to figure - no matter who you are (a robot or a human), you won’t pass the test. Here’s Ann's gallery of impossible CAPTCHAs: really an eye teaser, its not only eat the time also strain our eyes and brain. SixChannels suggestion is to go for very simple font CAPTCHAs

SixChannels personally faced many problems in filling CAPTCHAs to test human not the automated tools filling up the directories or website forms there fore we had opted very simple font CAPTCHAs to help out our visitors...

Google Labs Relaunches With Two New Must-See Projects

Google Labs, the company’s experimental playground where users can test out new features, has been quiet lately with the exception of Gmail Labs. This is unusual, especially for a company that prides itself on innovation and its famous 20 percent rule.

But it seems that Google (Google reviews)’s been hard at work behind the scenes. Today, they announced a relaunched Google Labs, moving it to a new domain and rebuilding it on Google App engine. In addition to the relaunch, Google has released two new Google Labs features: Similar Images and Google News Timeline. Here’s a quick overview of the new features, as well as the relaunched Google Labs:
Mashable the social media guide